Chip Berlet

Chip Berlet is senior analyst at Political Research Associates, a progressive think tank near Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Berlet is co-author (with Matthew N. Lyons) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, (New York: Guilford Press, 2000). He edited Eye’s Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash, (Boston, South End Press, 1995). Both books were awarded a Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding scholarship on the subject of human rights and intolerance in North America. He has appeared as an expert on television programs such as ABC's Nightline, and NBC's Today Show. Berlet has also contributed to edited collections, scholarly journals, academic conferences, and popular periodicals ranging from the New York Times to the Progressive magazine. He is an advisory board member of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, and has written academic studies, encyclopedia entries, and magazine articles on apocalyptic belief and demonization as recruitment and organizing strategies by totalitarian groups. He recently was named to the editorial board of the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. (c.berlet@publiceye.org)

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